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"If you're fatally sick you die." "Oh, well, I never died exactly," said Mary, "but I come blamed near it once. They thought I was dead and they were getting ready to lay me out when I up and come to." "What is it like to be half dead?" asked Jerry curiously. "Like nothing. I didn't know it for days afterwards. It was when I had the pewmonia. Mrs.
"But Rose isn't dangerously ill, is she?" he added anxiously, as Aunt Plenty was seen to trot across the upper hall, shaking a bottle violently as she went. "Oh, but she is though. The Doctor don't say much, but he don't call it a 'chill' any more. It's 'pleurisy' now, and I'm so afraid it will be pewmonia to-morrow," answered Phebe, with a despairing glance at the plaster.
I know'd well enough just how it 'ud be. But I couldn't get off. They couldn't get no one to take on my duty. I tell you I ain't had ten minutes' sleep this last five days. My little chap's ill pewmonia, the Doctor says and there's no one but me and 'is little sister to do for him. That's where it is. The gell must 'ave her sleep. Dangerous? Yes, I believe you. Now go and split on me if you like."
"I've just sent the pick of 'em to Snigson's boy him what's just getting over the pewmonia. But I've lots of illustrated papers left." He turned to the pile of papers in the corner and took up a heap six inches thick. "There!" he said. "I'll just slip a bit of string and a bit of paper round 'em." He pulled an old newspaper from the pile and spread it on the table, and made a neat parcel of it.
"It's my opinion," said Ike, who with The Kid had made a habit of dropping in for a visit to the sick man, and then would dispose themselves outside for a smoke, listening the while to the flow of song and story wherewith his daughter would beguile the old man from his weariness; "it's my opinion that it aint either that rheumatism nor that there pewmonia," Ike had once glanced at the doctor's label which distinguished the pneumonia medicine from that prescribed for rheumatism, "it aint either the rheumatism nor that there pewmonia," he repeated, "that's a-killin' him."
The old gentleman sends heaps of things, and is rather wearin, but means wal, and it aint my place to say nothin. My bread is riz, so no more at this time. I send my duty to Mr. March, and hope he's seen the last of his Pewmonia. Yours respectful, Hannah Mullet Head Nurse of Ward No. 2,
"Pleurisy," sighed Aunt Plenty, from the depths of the bath-tub. "Pewmonia!" groaned Dolly, burrowing among the bedclothes with the long-handled pan, as if bent on fishing up that treacherous disease. "Oh, is it bad?" asked Phebe, nearly dropping a pail of hot water in her dismay, for she knew nothing of sickness, and Dolly's suggestion had a peculiarly dreadful sound to her.
She would show these youngsters what a personage she was. "I've been sick an awful lot," she said proudly. "There's not many kids could have come through what I have. I've had scarlet fever and measles and ersipelas and mumps and whooping cough and pewmonia." "Were you ever fatally sick?" asked Una. "I don't know," said Mary doubtfully. "Of course she wasn't," scoffed Jerry.
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